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Go mess with MonoTouch or whatever if you want. Then go grab a fruit roll-up, think about what you did, and realize you should have just learned Objective-C.

OK, but why?

Seriously, it'll be worth it not to learn about manual memory management.

I'm confused - MonoTouch presumably has garbage collection, but Objective-C lets you 'not learn about manual memory management'. What's the deal?

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Seriously, it'll be worth it not to learn about manual memory management.

I believe he's making reference to the inclusion of automatic reference counting in iOS 5.

Exactly. That's why you have to pay the $100 for the dev license - to get Xcode 4.2 beta.

Ahah. So the mention of MonoTouch is a red-herring? Weird.

EDIT: @tptacek What confused me is there's no reason given to avoid MonoTouch, so I latched onto the memory management comment, to try and make sense of the text.

No, you're conflating two different points he's making. The MonoTouch jab isn't about memory management.

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